"Guaranteed harvest despite drought and flood, stable salary!"
Sun Chengzong gave a direct answer.
Bi Ziyan and Fang Guiwei suddenly realized.
As long as the government controls certain fields, these fields can provide officials with salaries at any time. Even if there is a natural disaster or the treasury is empty, there will still be trouble. This is to ensure harvests due to droughts and floods.
As long as the officials are not in chaos, there will be no chaos in the world.
Let’s talk about the stable salary. How many stones are there in the salary? This is a unit of volume and is mostly used for grain. The salary is paid out in grain, so it is also called Lumi, because grain is the hard currency, harder than silver.
When there is a good harvest, the price of food decreases, and one tael of silver can buy two, three, or even four shi.
However, if the official fields are used for self-sufficiency, the harvest will be more abundant and the famine will be less. However, these will still follow the price of grain, and the officials will not suffer losses.
Otherwise, if money is used to pay salaries, officials may starve to death when there is a famine.
"Good idea. If you grow food well and work hard, the harvest will be good, and your salary will naturally be large. And you must work hard, otherwise you will be hungry!
And there is no need to worry about these fields being invaded by officials, because the quantity and output are limited, and they are the salaries of the county officials, subordinates, and servants.
Unlike the health centers, which have tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of acres, greed is not easy to detect. "
"The method is good, but I am worried that local officials will join forces to occupy people's fields for their own benefit."
"Mr. Bi, there is no perfect method. No matter how perfect the method is, flaws will appear under the manipulation of thoughtful people. Even adding a few more monitoring mechanisms will be useless."
"Yes, we can only work on the ethics of officials."
"This is bound to happen!"
Chongzhen took the words and said coldly: "They can only pray that I don't find out. Once I find out, I will kill the three of them.
You all remember that anytime the government invades fertile land, it is a serious crime. Once discovered, the principal offender will be executed without mercy, and the accomplices will be punished with a hundred rods and exiled for three thousand miles! "
"I will remember His Majesty's teachings!"
Yuan Keli and the others looked serious and bowed to Chongzhen in response.
Chongzhen waved his hand and looked at Bi Ziyan: "Bi Aiqing, what I just said is that your household department will make a specific and executable plan for me.
We must pay special attention to the incentives for commercial development in Article 34. Don’t fish in the lake. Sustainable development is the prerequisite. In addition, strict confidentiality must be maintained. "
"Fang Aiqing, your Ministry of Personnel has three tasks. First, it is responsible for providing the Ministry of Household Affairs with information on the number of officials, etc.
Second, start to figure out the exact number of officials, subordinate staff, and servants in each state, prefecture, and county, and then determine the number of subordinate officials based on the population, geographical scope, and number of affairs of each county, and do not increase it without permission;
Third, the "Instructions for Evidence" you compiled at the beginning of the year was very effective and helped a lot in Jiangnan, but it was not enough.
You also need to write down the work content and handling methods of subordinate staff. The second and third items must be completed before the year. "
"I obey the order!"
Bi Ziyan and Fang Guiwei responded in unison, their eyes filled with excitement.
After a few more instructions, the four of them slowly exited Dongnuan Pavilion.
On the palace road outside Qianqing Palace, Yuan Keli and Sun Chengzong were in front, while Bi Ziyan and Fang Guiwei were half a step behind.
"Why……"
Listening to Bi Ziyan's sigh, Fang Guangwei beside him asked doubtfully: "Brother Jing Hui, why are you sighing so well, but your Majesty's explanation gives you a headache?"
"That's not true. Your Majesty has made it so clear. If I can't do it again, I won't be able to sit in the position of Minister of Household Affairs!"
Bi Ziyan shook his head: "Since I returned to Beijing, I have been shocked more times than in the officialdom in the previous decades.
I have been an official for many years and am particularly good at handling complex economic affairs. However, facing His Majesty's whimsical ideas, I feel that those in the past are superficial. "
"Yes, Your Majesty is so wise. Sometimes I wonder, is Your Majesty really a person born with knowledge?
Some decisions may not be perfect, but they are definitely just right and at the right time, without even a single mistake. "
Yuan Keli didn't answer, but he complained secretly in his heart. To say he was shocked, he started from Xi'an and returned to Beijing all the way. He had the most contact with the emperor and the most secrets. He felt the same way as any of these people.
Whether it is strategic thinking, top-level ideas, or subtleties, the emperor is far-sighted and has far-reaching intentions.
Sometimes when facing the emperor, he felt that in front of him was not a young man under twenty years old, but a wise man who had experienced the world for hundreds of years.
"When the foreign enemies are gone, the Ming Dynasty will really create a prosperous age. Alas, I am getting old and can no longer keep up with His Majesty's ideas. If this continues, His Majesty's major events will be delayed. I have to train a successor in advance!"
"Master Bi, among the four of us, Master Fang is seventy-four, I am sixty-seven this year, Mr. Sun Ge is sixty-eight this year, and you are only sixty. You are already old, so don't we have to directly Resigned?"
"this……"
Bi Ziyan smiled bitterly and sighed, but it turned out that he was the youngest.
After Yuan Keli finished speaking, he said softly: "But your idea is right. You need to find suitable candidates and train them."
"Mr. Yuan Ge, His Majesty just mentioned the subordinate officials several times in Dongnuan Pavilion, and also said that the subordinate officials have other arrangements. I have a feeling that His Majesty seems to want to take action against the subordinate officials, but at the moment I can't think of where to start.
The elder of the pavilion needs to give you some advice, so as not to make it difficult to get down from office! "
Listening to Fang Guiwei's question, Yuan Keli's eyes flashed: "You know His Majesty's character well. Before it is announced, even if I have a little guess, I can't tell.
For you officials, you only need to do the second and third things that His Majesty has just arranged for you. The number of people must be fixed and the posts must be fixed. The "Instructions for Administration" must be detailed. Don't think too much about the rest. . "
"So best."
Having said this, everyone left the Meridian Gate, and Fang Guiwei and Bi Ziyan headed towards the class room.
Sun Chengzong looked at the two people leaving, then looked in the direction of the Imperial College, and whispered: "Brother Liqing, are you ready to reform there?"
Yuan Keli nodded slightly. He only guessed about the reform of the imperial examination, but he couldn't guess how to change it.
But it is conceivable that once it is announced, it will be a blow to scholars all over the world. The imperial court will completely control one of the largest groups in the Ming Dynasty and use it for the Ming Dynasty.
"No matter how you change it, your Majesty's previous methods are definitely much better than the current system of imperial examination. This is a blessing for the world's scholars."
"Yes, the Kong family has been completely suppressed, the biggest resistance has been eliminated, and the reform of the imperial examination is a foregone conclusion."
"Let's go and study the North Korean side and make a plan. We'll start next spring."
…
The two of them exchanged words in low voices and walked slowly towards Wenyuan Pavilion. After just a few steps, they saw Li Ruolian hurriedly coming with a young man who was tired of work.
